Chapter 429 S3 strangled in the cradle
Chapter 429 S3 strangled in the cradle
Although China’s aerospace budget has been setting new records every year in the past decade, it broke through 10 billion US dollars for the first time in 22 years, reaching 11.94 billion and ranking second in the world.
But compared with NASA’s 24.8 billion US dollars, the difference is still a bit big.
Although the US dollar is not forbidden to spend in the United States, what 24.8 billion US dollars can do is not much more than that of the Chinese Space Administration, but the problem is that the private aerospace technology group in the United States is much stronger than that of China, and their scientific research expenses are not counted in NASA.
In addition, in order to support the technological infrastructure of semiconductors, intelligent robots and other industries, China has also cut its aerospace budget to a certain extent since this year, including Long March, Beidou, Chang’e, Shenzhou, Tianzhou, Tiangong and other projects have been more or less affected.
It is normal for funds to be tilted. Compared with the distant future, the main goal at present is to use the technology that Kang Chi has already developed to develop rapidly and strengthen itself.
But understanding is understanding. When the budget was really cut, Director Ge was still somewhat uncomfortable.
Now that Kang Chi is ready to officially enter the aerospace field, in addition to bringing a strong scientific research team, it also means that the largest “capital” in the country has settled in, which made Director Ge so excited that he couldn’t sleep all night yesterday…
Therefore, at the end of the meeting, Director Ge asked Kang Chi a question that he was most concerned about: ”How much money do you plan to invest in the aerospace field?”
”I haven’t thought about this.” Kang Chi smiled,
”The main reason is that the plan is relatively long, and it is impossible to make a budget table at all, but if there is a need, all the money of our group can be used for space development…”
”No one should care about this?”
”No, how can it be!” Director Ge’s mouth immediately rose when he heard that Kang Chi was going to gather the strength of the entire group to develop aerospace. With Kang Chi’s financial resources and technology, wouldn’t it be just around the corner for the position of the first aerospace power?
“It’s your own money, so of course you can spend it however you want! If anyone dares to interfere, I’ll be the first to stand up and scold him for you!”
“…”
After the meeting, Director Ge privately said that he would discuss some support policies to protect Kang Chi as soon as possible. If Kang Chi needs technology, he can also consider technology licensing, but because Kang Chi is obviously used for commercial purposes, the technical cost assessment must be carried out according to the process.
“But don’t worry, this is a process. I will try my best to get you a bargain price.”
”That’s not necessary.” Kang Chi shook his head. “This is equivalent to a normal technology transaction between enterprises. After all, it is the hard work of so many scientific researchers in the country. I can’t always take advantage of the country. Moreover, these things are not available to normal people with money. It is very rare for you to give me a normal price, so you can quote a normal price, and I will also send someone to negotiate the price normally.”
Director Ge couldn’t help but look at Kang Chi with some surprise, and then said with a smile: “I didn’t expect Academician Kang to take advantage of it…”
”I won’t let you take advantage of it either,” Kang Chi explained with a smile, “and making money is for spending. If you only make money but don’t spend it, how can the economy be active, right?”
Director Ge also smiled and didn’t continue to discuss this topic.
After all, daring to spend money is based on being able to make money. Although their space agency can also make money by launching commercial satellites, it basically still depends on state subsidies. Otherwise, it is a fantasy to want to develop aerospace by commercial behavior alone.
Because Kang Chi needs to build a prototype by himself to upgrade items, and Kang Chi generally has two methods to build a prototype. One is to quickly make a low-level product by himself. The main task of this low-level product is to give the system a “prompt word” to ensure that the system does not go astray during the upgrade process.
It feels like AI painting and drawing a wife card. The other method is to obtain relatively mature technology, copy it and upgrade it after mastering the technology. The advantage of this method is that others have written the “prompt word” very clearly and specifically. If Kang Chi copies it, he can save more time and general experience, and the possibility of upgrading is relatively small. At the same time, the high-tech produced in this way, the industrial chain is basically upgraded on the original basis, without the need to open up a new industrial chain separately, and mass production is relatively easy.
So in Director Ge’s office, Kang Chi briefly learned about aHe selected the leading aerospace technology projects in China and finally chose the technology of the Tengyun Project that he thought would be helpful for the space shuttle.
The Tengyun Project is a space shuttle that can take off and land horizontally and can be reused multiple times.
Yes, it is the “space plane” that has always been very popular in public opinion.
When most people first see this word, they probably think of the space shuttle immediately, and then after a simple understanding, they immediately think that this will be a high-tech alternative to and successor to the space shuttle.
But in fact, the difference between the two is quite large.
The term space plane sounds quite high-end, but its principle is actually “air-launched rocket”. Air-launched rockets are not a new word. Basically, all missiles launched by fighter jets can be called air-launched rockets. And the space air-launched rocket refers to the rocket launched by the carrier aircraft, which can leave the atmosphere and enter the earth’s orbit.
As for why the rocket is not launched directly on the ground, but must be launched by an airplane carrying the rocket to the sky? Mainly to save launch costs,
In the past, the technology of recyclable rockets was immature and not as popular as it is now. Scientists have thought of many ways to reduce the launch cost of rockets. Among them, space-launched rockets are a launch scheme that uses large carrier aircraft to replace or partially replace the first-stage rocket.
This scheme allows the rocket to be at a high altitude with thin air and less resistance when it is launched, and at the same time obtain a certain initial speed, so it can carry less fuel and increase the payload ratio.
However, this scheme has high requirements for the carrier aircraft. First of all, it must have a relatively high load, otherwise the weight and load of the rocket cannot be raised, so generally transport aircraft or large passenger aircraft are used as carrier aircraft. Secondly, the engine performance of the carrier aircraft must be good, and the higher it can fly, the better.
China’s technology in these two fields was actually quite weak before, so this scheme has basically not been actually used and studied in China.
At the same time, air-launched rockets are also considered by the industry to be a “castrated alternative” to recyclable rockets, and can only be used as a transitional solution. Therefore, foreign R&D investment is not high. Only Virgin Orbit and Mojave Aerospace Expeditions are doing it, and they are not very professional.
Later, as the technology of recyclable rockets gradually matured and became popular, the two companies have fallen into an embarrassing situation of reduced orders, financing difficulties, and project bankruptcy at any time.
Speaking of this, the advantages and disadvantages of the aerospace plane scheme, which is based on the same principle as the aerospace air-launched rocket, are actually very obvious.
It has many advantages, such as not being restricted by the rocket launch window and site, and having an airport to take off and land at any time, and it can also be fully reused, with low single launch costs.
But its disadvantages are as obvious as its advantages, that is, the low carrying efficiency, which is only suitable for transporting personnel and small equipment. This leads to the value of the aerospace plane in the military field, which is actually much higher than that in the aerospace field.
This is also the main reason why Kang Chi chose the “antique” technology route of the space shuttle.
In fact, to be honest, the various schemes of space launch technology are more or less similar. For example, the two solid rockets and the external orange tanks carried by the space shuttle are equivalent to the carrier aircraft, while the orbiter of the space shuttle is equivalent to the aerospace plane.
Therefore, the relevant technologies of the Tengyun Project are of great help to Kang Chi in developing a new type of space shuttle.
Of course, it would be even better if he could get the ready-made drawings of the space shuttle…
Kang Chi couldn’t help but ask Director Ge: “Do you think it’s possible to buy the technical drawings of the Blizzard from Damao?”
”Blizzard?”
Director Ge showed a somewhat embarrassed expression, but finally nodded: “I will try my best to help you think of a solution.” – Coincidentally, when Kang Chi and Director Ge finished their conversation and took a plane back to Dongyang, General Belfshka also arrived in Yanjing, and then immediately contacted his old friend Cai Yaobin and made a request for additional war robots and the purchase of new fighters.
Cai Yaobin had previously ‘sold’ them ten war robots from two combat teams at a bargain price, and required them to use them only at the agreed time and not to disassemble the robots, otherwise they would be responsible for the consequences.
China also sent a maintenance team, which was responsible for replacing and repairing the robot’s quantum communication chips and other consumable parts, and there was also a bit of ‘supervision’ involved.
This is also a routine operation for high-end equipment transactions, and the big MaoI don’t have any objections. However, they were a little skeptical about the actual performance of this war robot at first, but they were shocked when they used it.
War devil!
General Belfshka could only use this word to describe that thing.
They had doubts about China’s actual combat capabilities before, and they also had some objections about who was the big brother and who was the second brother. But after seeing this equipment show its power in actual combat, they no longer had the courage to compete for the big brother…
To be honest, Belfshka thought that S3, which started with a nuclear war, was almost inevitable.
It’s not that he is pessimistic, but history has given the facts.
The saying that nuclear weapons are too powerful and no one dares to use them is actually completely untenable.
When machine guns first appeared on the battlefield and quickly ended the Civil War, everyone thought that with this kind of “weapons of mass destruction”, wars would definitely not be fought in the future. Soldiers would be like cutting leeks in front of such weapons. How could wars be fought? So the world would be peaceful in the future!
However, when S1 just started, machine gun fire became the norm on the battlefield.
And the new “weapons of mass destruction” that ended S1 appeared again.
When tanks rushed on the battlefield, ran over trenches and broke through barbed wire, ending the war in an invincible manner, many people began to say that wars would definitely not be fought in the future. With steel monsters like tanks, how could wars be fought?
So the world would be peaceful in the future!
As a result, these people were slapped in the face again. The Hans Kingdom started with a blitzkrieg of armored forces and set off S2.
Then what was the “weapon of mass destruction” that ended S2?
It was the atomic bomb.
Then, what did these people say?
With nuclear weapons, wars will definitely not start! This is actually deceiving oneself.
Once S3 really starts, the probability of a nuclear war may be higher than anyone imagines!
From a historical perspective, this may even be inevitable.
This can be seen from everyone’s attitude towards nuclear weapons.
Among all nuclear-armed countries, except for Panda, the attitude towards nuclear weapons is actually the same: to ensure preemptive nuclear power.
In other words, they have never actually said that they will not use nuclear weapons. Not only will they use them, but they will also ensure preemptive strikes.
This means, you mess with me, right? Then guess whether I will use it before you! This is the truth and meaning of deterrence.
Human civilization has always been full of blood and killing, but the short-lived peace has given many people many illusions.
Belfshka had been thinking about what the ‘weapon of mass destruction’ that could end S3 would be, until he saw these war robots, and suddenly realized that maybe this was it.
To end S3, one must make an assumption: assuming that most important places have experienced nuclear explosions, how can one still maintain combat effectiveness in such an environment?
These robots seem to have given this answer.
The communication in the nuclear explosion area is basically equivalent to the area of full-band blocking interference, but this kind of robot can ignore electromagnetic interference and communicate without dead angles, so its combat effectiveness in the nuclear explosion area is still unrestricted.
In a sense, it is a new nuclear bomb.
So Belfshka quickly concluded that S3 might have been strangled in the cradle by this kind of robot, or the ‘circular communication device’ installed in the robot by Chinese engineers.
That kind of ‘circular communication device’ is the new ‘weapon of mass destruction’! He believes that what needs to be considered now is how to put more pressure on the West with fists at the end of S3, and to gain more say with achievements in the upcoming negotiations.
Therefore, Belfshka has repeatedly applied for more robots.
However, Cai Yaobin can naturally see the little tricks of the Damao family, so all their proposals have been rejected.
The reason is that the production capacity is insufficient, so only so many have been made.
Although everyone is in the same boat, who doesn’t have a little trick?
From our perspective, the less this kind of high-end equipment flows out, the better, reducing the possibility of dismantling the technology.
Although Kang Chi has repeatedly emphasized that others can’t research this technology at all, let alone make it, it’s always good to keep an eye on it.
And the main purpose of selling it is to deter, to strive for it at the negotiation tableto get enough bargaining chips, so unless there are difficulties at the negotiation table, it is possible to sell more.
As for the new mysterious fighter jet that is called the sixth-generation fighter jet, Belfshka had never heard of it before.
It is also funny that this news was given to him by the M country.
They took the initiative to contact the big Russia, provided some military exercise data, and frantically emphasized the power of this fighter jet.
It is obvious that they are hinting: With such a powerful neighbor, aren’t you afraid?
The meaning of sowing discord is quite obvious.
Admittedly, the big Russia was a little scared after seeing it, but they felt that as long as they put themselves in the right position and honestly acted as the second in command, this big brother should still be very reliable.
So the trick of the old M is not very effective.
However, since the big brother’s family has a new good thing, as a younger brother, it is normal to come and play with it, right? Even if they only sold one, it would be a super weapon to protect the country.
Therefore, General Belfshka personally flew to Yanjing to ask Cai Yaobin for the big treasure.
(End of this chapter)